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ir,,,ro.eiou that Jackson sim ,neditatcd mis-
,.biof in tho valley In roolitv he WINS to
Moot the n-onforcomauts mud hurry back with
thnm tn nicbmond Invvton's and Vyhitin,'s
commands wore morched ont of Richmond
with n flourish cara leinp taken that the
I,ejcrols should he aware of if. At Harris
,urc Jackson met them June II, and all
,o,,tel bacl to Richmond The plan was a
.onnlotc success and if wos this tricl, which
.or the third time prevented Mcdowell from
dining the army of the Potomac.
1t is to be noted that Secretary Stanton
only. of all the Federal managers. was not de-
ccived by the ruse. but declared that Jack
sons real movement was toward Richmond
Everybody was undeceived when, June 2G,
Mcclellan hastily telerraphed that his pickets
were being driven in north of the Chicka-
hominy.
Until then. day after day. it had been tele-
rrophed to WASHINGTON. "All Quiet in
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According to his usual luck the general was
absent when the battle of Malvern Hill began.
With the changed front, Porter's corps WAS
on the left. Sliirted in an oval around Nal
vern Hill We're the other Federal troops COUGHS
division on the right of Porter next hcarnry and
IieoKer, next Sedgwck and Richardson next
Smith and Socum, then the remainder of Reyes
corps. Gen. Mcclellan himself had ordered this
disposition of troops.
The Confederates were in close pursuit. At
O'Clock their advance was seen They We're ranged
in this order: MagrIder and liuger on the Con-
federate right, while Cir1ing after them to the
lett were jackson, Ewe, Whiting and u. II.
Hill Longstreet and \. T. Hill were in the rear,
too weary to fight.
The Confederates had been ordered by Gen.
Lee to charge with yell" if the Federal line
was broken. Next, they were to advance with
fixed bayOnets and drive the invaders into the
James" But the shouting did not come off.
Gen ArniStrad, who was to carry ont this part
of the programme, advanced to a point where he
could not come ON or go back. and his troops lay
down upon the ground to escape the artillery fire.
The first attack was made upon Porter and
Couch. llorcll's division of Porter's corps and
Couchs division of Reyes bore the brunt of the
battle.
The Confederate plan was to take Malvern Hill
by assault But tier after tier of Union artillery
rose above the heads of the ConfcdcratcS and
poured a deadly fire into them. The Federal gum
boats in the river aided the artillery in TIE hills,
and the Confederates We're driven back with
slaughter and confusion Three desperate as
saults were made upon the hills in vain, With
the darkness the broken Confederates drew off
and gave up the fight. The day was decided by
the tiers of Federal artillery among the hills.
Once more, July p McClelans generals be-
lieved that he could have advanced and taken
Richmond. But he did not. On the contrary he
moved all his army to llarrisons landing, three
mics down, and wrote to Washington for re-en-
forcnHClts Ct the l. 800 mcu which had uoSi-
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massSg in front. Anon Franklin discovered
heavy columns on his right BY this mastery
Confederate tactics the corps commanders
were kept expecting an attack all day, and
prevented from sending aid to Porter.
Again, at sunset, Porter, still desperately
fighting, sent for help. Could it be sparedl
Mcclellan asked. Then Sumner sent French's
and Thomas francis Meagher's brigades, but
confessed that lie thought he was running n
risk to do il,
The two L,iSadcs dashed across tho bridges
and UP tho bluff toward Gaines Mill with a
shout and a cheer, Meagher the lively Irish
general, at their head in his shirt sleeves, the
soldiers tell.
But then it was too late.
Portel's terribly cut up line had broken in
the center at las. The soldiers who hcl
fought so bravely and so long We're rushing
pellnell toward the Chickahominy, in full
rout. The comrades who Lad come tv save
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Magl1ldcr's attack censed. Summers corps
then moved nearer Savage station.
MrCleilan's destruction of the Chickn-
hominy bridges had retarded the pursuit by
jackson, who was ON the north side of the
river. He did not get over till the morning
of the 30th
Meantime, on the afternoon of the Goth,
Magruder again attacked the Federal forces
around Savage Station. He says he had
$4,000 men, Thus, with Hugers division
pursuing McClellans army, Richmond was
quite denuded of troops.
The Federal forces grouped around Savage
station in the battle Of that name were Frank
Inns corps, with Smith and Slocum as division
commanders, Summers corps, and MCCalGs
division of Franklin's corps. Heintzelman
had been ordered by Sumner to take position
Oh the left, but IIeintzelman simply withdrew
his corps, and took no part in the battle of
Savage Station. He said there was not room
for so many troops, so he destroyed the stores
at Savage station and started for the James.
1t was well known that there was no love
lost between 1leintzelman and Sumner
Lee had expected jackson to take part in
the action at Savage station, but Jackson had
not yet been able to rebuild the Grapevine
bridge, and SO Magruder fought alone. At
| J:JO Magruuer brought his forces INTO action.
| With them was the peculiar riiled cannon
which the Confederates called the Land Mer-
| rimac.n 1t was mounted upon car, and the
front of it was covered with a slopng iron
roof, from which shots ratified harmlessly off.
| The sides were protected with amor plate,
over which was another covering of heavy
wood.
Just before sunset Magruder's Confederates
made Il rush for the Union forces at Savage
station. The Land Merrimac' used
with great effect. They We're met with a
heavy fire from the Union line. Then for
half an hour there was nothing but roar and
smoke and deadly fire. At the end of that
time the Confederate lines were broken.
They gave way, fell back and left the road to
White Oak swamp open for the Federal re-
treat to the James. The retreat was con-
tinued as soon as The wounded could be
gathered up, and Summers and Franliin's
corps went on their way, through White
Oak swamp leaving behind them Savage
Station, with its huge hospital of sick and
wounded and its medical stores. This was
| McClellans order. 1t fell into the hands of
Stonewall Jackson next morning, with its
$500 men.
In the battle of Savage station the Con
fpderatpS lost I 600 men, the FederalS 5000
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THE SEVEN DAYS.
June, 1887, Brings Back Their
Quarter Centenary,
THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
Splendid Fighting on the Bloody Re.
treat to the James River.

The Desperate Fights of Mechanicsville,
Gaines Mills, Savage Station, Glen
dale and Malvern Hill-The Route
from Yorktown to the James Strewn
with soldiers Graves.
After the battle of Fair Oaks, both armies
rested while Hardly had Summers corps
crossed to the south side of the Chicka-
hominy, May 81, 1852, when the Chicka-
hominy rose in mighty flood and swept all
before it, Summers Grapevine bridge in
cluded. If the flood had come in the fore
noon of that day at Fair Oaks instead Of
toward evening, the corps of McClellan's
army south of the stream would have been
cut to pieces.
Only the railway bridge was left across the
Chickahomny, and over this We're brought
supplies for the corps-Keyes', Heitzelman's
and Sumner's-on the south side of the
stream. The base of supplies was still at
White House, on the Pamunkey. "'Ehe
ground turned into vast swamp" says Gen
Webb, land the guns in battery sank into
the earth by their own weight"
Mcclellan began again in this swamp his
favorite work of throwing up intrenchments.
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a. +.
plies. He therefore prepared to strike Nc
Clellan at White House, on the Pamunkey.
He sent Ewel and Stuart to that point to
seize the railway and war supplies. They
were day too late The stores had been
mostly removed, and such as could not he
carried away were destroyed The White
House itself had been burnt. The night of
the 2Sth of June, it suddenly dawned ON Lee
that Mcclellan had changed his base, and
was in retreat to the James, with the nten-
ton of drawing supplies by that way. He
determined to send his army i'll pursuit at
once.
Then came the next battles in this CHASTITY
serial--the fights of Aliens Farm and Savage
Station and the affair at Willis church, all
june %
With all haste Mcclellan had retreated to-
ward the james. He gave orders that all
supplies which could not lie quickly conveyed
shonld BE- destroyed Says Gen. Webb, i'll
the "PcnmSula Campaign:" Lines of fire
marked the camps and depots of the Union
troops Millions of rations, hundreds of tons
of fixed ammunition and shells for the siege
guns We're thus LOST
June % McClellan's headquarters We're re-
moved from Savage station to the James
river side of White Oak swamp. The line of
retreat can be seen on the map of the seven
days battle ground. The same day Sumner
abandoned Fair Oaks and also dropped south
ward, to Orchard station. BY following the
line of march on the map the reader will see
that their moves We're in direction away
from Richmond.
"Ah, there was a time for you,' SAYS one of
the old boys of the army Of the Potomac, who
limps about with bullet wound in his leg,
got in the seven days battle 1--WE used to
fight all day and march all night
So desperately bent on reaching the
James was Mcclellan that he left his sick
and wounded who could not be moved be-
hind him in hospital at Savage station,
where they would inevitably be taken by the
Confederates.
Sumner and Heintzeman's corps were at
Aliens farm, near Orchard station, on the
morning of June %. That morning Lees
army started in pursuit of the retreating
Fe1erals. Huger and Magruder started out,
| Magrudcr 10y the Williamsburg road, which
led eastward to Savage station, Huger Law
the Charles City road, which led southeast
| ward to Glendale. These and Longstrcet and
a. p. Hill We're to attack on the right, while
| jackson was to cross the Chicliahominv IN
| the rear of the Fedoials and pursue from the
| north
Mcclellan, in arranging his retreat had
ordered Reyes To go forward first and take
position on Malvern Hill, near the James.
| Porter and Franklin were to follow, and 50,
! watching the rear and the right, thcy were
| to push ON to the James This was the
morning of the Goth. Mcclellan himself had
| already ridden on toward the james, to Sc
lect Il suitable position The heaviest supplies
were already well on the way. Among them
was a drove of 900 beef cattle, which were
got Off in safety.
Gen James Longstreet was a South Carolnan.
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that fated Goth of June was at Willis
church, near Glendale. 1t "A sharp
siirmish with Confederate cavalry on the
Quaker road, by which Mcclellan was re-
treating. With the great number of Con-
federates drawing nearer and nearer to his
right, and Jackson's men after him in the
rear this retreat of Mcclellan to the James
was no child's play.
June 30 Mcclellan had reached his new
headquarters at Malvern hill, near the
James But the army of the Potomac had
by no means arrived there. 1t bad yet more
fighting before it ere it rested on the james.
In this bloody retreat fighting enough was
done and lives enough We're sacrificed to have
taken Richmond many times over if the Fed
eral generals, had only known how to do it,
Three roads leading out from Richmond
intercept the Quaker road by which McClel-
Ian retreated When Reyes began his retreat,
he fortunately discovered an old road run
ming parallel with the Quaker road He
struck that, and by hurrying his men along
it, reached Malvern Hill speedily. double
line of troops was thus also formed against
the ConfederatcS The two routes appear on
tn. map.
There was constant danger of attack by
the Confederates along the cross roads, al
ready mentioned, leading from Richmond,
namely the Charles City, Central and New
market roads. As soon us Lee discovered
the line of McClellan's retreat he ordered
Hill and Longstreet to recrosS to the south
side of the Chickahominy and follow south
and intercept the Federals. The Central road
runs into Long Bridge read, and that crosses
the Quaker road. At the intersection of the
Long Bridge and Quaker roads Hill and
Longstreet found part of the Federal forces
a mile further on, at the junction of the
Newmarket and Quaker roads, McCalls div-
sion was posted,
Then took place the sixth contest of the
seven days fighting-the battle of Glendale,
sometimes called also the battle of Nelson's
Farm Monday, June 80. 1t is called, too,
the battle of Frazier's Farm.
In all the stubborn fighting of the PENN
sula the absence of the commanding general
from so many of the severest fights is matter
of note While his corps commanders, and
in some cases division and brigade generals,
were bearing the brunt of battle without a
leader as best they might, Mcclellan was apt
to be of somewhere else, experimenting the
throwing up of intrenchments or the selection
of headquarters or doing engineers work. 1t
was unfortunate for his fame rs a military
commander.
On the perilous retreat to the James he
went ahead, to Malvern Hill, to James river
and the gunboats. During the bloody fight
at Glendale the general in chief knew nothing
about it till late at night, He had been part
of the day at his headquarters at Malvern
Hill and part of the time upon gUnboat.
In the battle at Glendale Gen. Philip Kcarney
distinguished himself. Jle was one of the most
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SEVEN DAYS BATTLE GROUND.

Mcclellan and Lee had each fixed on June
2G as a day for attacking the other. Nc
Clcllan meant to storm Richmond and take it
by assault. Lee intended to attack Mcclellan
and raise the siege of Richmond. But Nc
Clellan was behind Lee in moving, and
the Confederates got in their attack
first. Then Mcclellan dismissed his plan of
taking Richmond for the time, and made
preparations for secure retreat to the James,
which was now in possession of the Federals
from its mouth nearly to the Confederate
capital.
Tie first battle of the seven days fighting
was that of Mechanicsyile, June 2G. A
slight siirmish had taken place June %.
Porter's corps was stationed around and to
the cast of Mechanicsville. Near here was
Beaver Dam creek, with Ellison's Mil upon
it. McCall's Pennsylvanians were stationed
on the rising ground near Ellison's Mill, COM
handing the creek To the right, left and
rear of Mccall were Gems. Reynolds, Martin
dale, Griffin, Meade and Seymour, with their
commands The troops were ranged half
moon shape on Beaver Dam creek. Mechan-
icsyile bridge crossed the Chickahomny.
Stonewall jackson and his men were to be
in the rear of Mechanicsville on the morning
of the Goth Branch's Confederate brigade
was to cross the Chickahominy up near Rich
mond, move rapidly down the river road and
clear Meadow bridge Of its Union guard, and
then strike eastward, join Stonewall Jackson,
and make an attack OH the Federal rear east
of Mechanicsvilie. Meadow bridge crossed
the Chickahominy north of the one at
Mechanicsville.
As soon as Meadow bridge was cleared of
Federals. A. p. Hill was to cross it rapidly,
push still further south and then tako the
road to Mechanicsville. That movement
would leave the Mechanicsville bridge clear.
Longstreet and d. II. Hill were to cross it,
march hastily ON and join the attacking